So near the drama hastens to its close,
  On this last scene awhile your eyes repose;
  The polished Greek and Scythian meet again,
  The ancient life is lived by modern men—­
  The savage through our busy cities walks,—­
  He in his untouched grandeur silent stalks. 
  Unmoved by all our gaieties and shows,
  Wonder nor shame can touch him as he goes;
  He gazes on the marvels we have wrought,
  But knows the models from whence all was brought;
  In God’s first temples he has stood so oft,
  And listened to the natural organ loft—­
  Has watched the eagle’s flight, the muttering thunder heard,
  Art cannot move him to a wondering word;
  Perhaps he sees that all this luxury
  Brings less food to the mind than to the eye;
  Perhaps a simple sentiment has brought
  More to him than your arts had ever taught. 
  What are the petty triumphs Art has given,
  To eyes familiar with the naked heaven?

  All has been seen—­dock, railroad, and canal,
  Fort, market, bridge, college, and arsenal,
  Asylum, hospital, and cotton mill,
  The theatre, the lighthouse, and the jail. 
  The Braves each novelty, reflecting, saw,
  And now and then growled out the earnest yaw. 
  And now the time is come, ’tis understood,
  When, having seen and thought so much, a talk may do some good.

  A well-dressed mob have thronged the sight to greet,
  And motley figures throng the spacious street;
  Majestical and calm through all they stride,
  Wearing the blanket with a monarch’s pride;
  The gazers stare and shrug, but can’t deny
  Their noble forms and blameless symmetry. 
  If the Great Spirit their morale has slighted,
  And wigwam smoke their mental culture blighted,
  Yet the physique, at least, perfection reaches,
  In wilds where neither Combe nor Spursheim teaches;
  Where whispering trees invite man to the chase,
  And bounding deer allure him to the race.

  Would thou hadst seen it!  That dark, stately band,
  Whose ancestors enjoyed all this fair land,
  Whence they, by force or fraud, were made to flee,
  Are brought, the white man’s victory to see. 
  Can kind emotions in their proud hearts glow,
  As through these realms, now decked by Art, they go? 
  The church, the school, the railroad and the mart—­
  Can these a pleasure to their minds impart? 
  All once was theirs—­earth, ocean, forest, sky—­
  How can they joy in what now meets the eye? 
  Not yet Religion has unlocked the soul,
  Nor Each has learned to glory in the Whole!

  Must they not think, so strange and sad their lot,
  That they by the Great Spirit are forgot? 
  From the far border to which they are driven,
  They might look up in trust to the clear heaven;
  But here—­what tales doth every object tell
  Where Massasoit sleeps—­where Philip fell!